In November, 1966, the Secretary of HEW created a Task Force on Environmental Health and Related Problems charged with recommending goals, priorities and threats in the area of environmental health and welfare. The Task Force held five two-day conferences in Boston, New York City, Detroit, Los Angeles and Berkeley to gather information and recommendations from a broad range of views, from academic, government, labor, business leaders across the nation. Goal nine of the Task Force’s ten environmental goals was that 100% of workers should be covered by an occupational disease and safety protection effort by 1970. This report followed the 1965 US Public Health Service report (Frye Report), "Protecting the Health of Eighty Million Americans," which called for a major national occupational health effort centered in the Public Health Service.
